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Lesotho is a small, landlocked country surrounded by South Africa with a population of about 2 million people. It also has the second highest prevalence of HIV in the world, with 23 percent of the population infected. This high HIV prevalence is a key contributing factor in Lesotho having one of the lowest life expectancies...
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The IKEA Foundation and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced two new four year grants totaling $16.8 million to continue work to reduce child mortality and provide access to lifesaving treatment for diarrhea and pneumonia in Madhya Pradesh, India and Kenya. The two grants, which began in January, build on CHAI’s work in...
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Market access agreements advance growing ACS-led effort to significantly improve cancer care in six sub-Saharan African countries The American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) today announced two separate groundbreaking market access agreements with Pfizer Inc. and Cipla Inc. to expand access to sixteen essential cancer treatment medications, including chemotherapies, in...
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Until recently, many low- and middle-income countries were not able to provide HIV treatment to all patients due to the high cost of medication and treatment was reserved for only the sickest individuals. Decisions about whether or not to initiate patients on lifesaving antiretroviral therapy (ART) were often based on how far a patient’s disease...
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CD4 cell count is an important diagnostic test to manage HIV-positive patients in low- and middle-income countries. CD4 testing is used to prioritize patients for treatment in settings where treatment is not accessible to all, monitor patients on treatment where viral load testing is not available, and monitor and manage patients with advanced HIV disease...
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Recognizing that Universal health coverage (UHC) cannot be realized without an adequate health workforce, CHAI along with the UK Government’s Department for International Development (DFID), have been supporting the Zambian Ministry of Health since 2010 to recruit, train and deploy a motivated community-based health workforce. Known as Community Health Assistants (CHAs), these workers have been...
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Since 2002, CHAI has worked to increase access to HIV drugs and diagnostics in the developing world with the transformational goal of saving lives. Through collaboration with a broad coalition of partners, the Interagency Task Team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers, and Children (IATT) has helped support the...
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View the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. and Subsidiaries’ 2016 Consolidated Financial Statements.
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CHAI’s first-ever HIV Mid-Year Market Memo is an informational brief that covers the latest trends in the HIV space since the publication of CHAI’s annual ARV Market Report in October 2016. See the HIV Mid-Year Market Memo here. See the 2016 ARV Market Report here.
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Addressing the gaps in HIV service delivery is critical to eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV. Even small gains in maternal retention on antiretroviral therapy (ART) can result in large gains in the number of children born HIV-free and significantly improves the health and survival of women and children. With timely identification of HIV status among...
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